Space Racing

[Tenacity]

Epic abuse much? Even if theres no cargo or guns, people would send them ahead as scouts so they would know where there enemy was, or just fly around people annoying them. Like how the Camera Ship used to be.

The camera ship is still that way =P

An impulse of 410 or so with no cruise ability and no thruster might work, but I'd probably give it normal impulse speed and two or three thruster mounts - multiple thrusters multiply the speed increase, so with 3 or so you get up to cruise speed. Thing is, it drains your thruster energy extremely fast when you have that many, so it's like having to time your NOS in a street race. Thrusters also cant be used at the same time as cruise, so it doesnt imbalance the addition of cruise to the ship - it just lets you have a ship that can go really fast without having to charge cruise engines, but cant keep up that speed for very long.

Anyways, I've got about half of the first racer model finished. The idea I'm going on is kinda like the podracers from starwars - all engine, nothing else. Basically the model I'm making is a tiny little cockpit strapped to the biggest engines the pilot could find, and I'm putting a lot of little mechanical bits in there to give it the feel of a muscle-car-ish engine.

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